DNA PRODUCTIONS
Los Angeles · Electronic Music
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Electronic · IDM · Glitch

THREE
RECORDS

Three works from the DNA Productions catalogue — constructed at the intersection of electronic programming, emotional texture, and machine logic. Click any cover to stream.

RECORD_01 OF 03 2010
Grief Is The Stillness
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// REC_01 · LIONEL COHEN · 2010
Lionel Cohen

GRIEF IS
THE STILLNESS

IDMGlitch AmbientPost-RockElectronica
// THE SOUND

Cohen's most experimental record operates on tension — between stillness and rupture, organic warmth and synthetic precision. Heavily processed guitars dissolve into ambient pools before glitch rhythms fracture the surface. The programming is meticulous: every broken beat intentional, every silence loaded.

Melodically richer than most IDM, the record carries genuine emotional weight — post-rock songwriting logic applied to electronic architecture. Grief, transition, quiet dread, suspended time.

Texture
Granular · Layered
Feel
Slow Drift / Fractured
Register
Introspective · Heavy
Palette
Electronic + Guitar

/// "Everything that evolves dies, but it dies in order for something else to emerge into life."

/// "At what point do we stop making technology work for us, and cross over to where we work for it?"

/// "When your head is filled with enough to drown the earth, you will break your silence."

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RECORD_02 OF 03 NOV 2024
The Silent Architects
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// REC_02 · FKS · NOV 2024
Franklin Kenneth Stein

THE SILENT
ARCHITECTS

IDMGlitch ElectronicCinematic
// THE SOUND

FKS operates where electronics become philosophy. Precision-engineered — IDM frameworks holding glitch textures in tension with cinematic space. Tracks move with the logic of circuits: structured, purposeful, then deliberately broken.

Colder and more architectural than Grief, this record leans into machine unease. The silence between sounds carries as much weight as the signal. A current of genuine dread runs beneath the surface: the cost of progress, the void behind the screen, the question of who — or what — is really doing the designing.

Texture
Precision · Sterile
Feel
Mechanical · Chopped
Register
Unease · Dread · Clarity
Palette
Pure Electronic / Synth
// 13 TRANSMISSIONS · 37:20
01The Cost of Innovation4:06
02Silence of the Screens2:43
03Heart of a Machine2:31
04Lost in Advancement2:53
05The Engines of Creation2:39
06The Digital Divide3:08
07In Code We Trust3:09
08Gears of a New Age2:20
09Uploading the Past3:05
10Shaping a New Tomorrow1:35
11Wired to the World2:18
12Charting the Unknown3:08
13We Are the Architects2:46
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RECORD_03 OF 03 1995 / 2015
Music for Computers
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// REC_03 · TORONTO LO-FI · 1995 / 2015
Toronto Lo-Fi (Lionel Cohen)

MUSIC FOR
COMPUTERS

IDMGlitch Lo-FiExperimentalElectronic
// THE SOUND

In 1995, a failing soundcard rewired how Toronto Lo-Fi worked. Rather than fix the fault, Lionel Cohen played through it — letting the machine's own breakdown set the rhythm. What survived on tape reads now like a document of failure treated as instrument, years before glitch had a name and before IDM had shelf space of its own.

Twenty tracks came out of that dying hardware, titled only by number: Experiment 01 through Experiment 20. In 2015, a contiguous run — Experiments 07 through 13 — was pulled back out and reissued as Music for Computers, the same floppy disk on the cover now standing in for the format the tracks were almost lost to.

Texture
Bit-Crushed · Corrupted
Feel
Stuttering / Unrepeatable
Register
Deadpan · Archival
Palette
Soundcard + Synth
// 7 EXPERIMENTS · 15:41 · MUSIC FOR COMPUTERS (20TH ANNIVERSARY)
07Experiment 071:27
08Experiment 083:56
09Experiment 092:30
10Experiment 100:54
11Experiment 111:12
12Experiment 121:04
13Experiment 134:38

/// "The glitch was never a mistake. It was the only take we had."

/// "A broken machine still keeps time — just not yours."

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